"I heard that picking up scrap can be quite profitable, Second Cui. Just look at you, why can’t you bring yourself to eat something decent? Just a bowl of porridge and a mantou, not even a single dish, what’s the point of saving all that money? I hear your three children are all trouble, only know how to eat, drink, play, and have fun, don’t work, and don’t make any money. You’re the only one picking up scrap to support them, and still, they are ungrateful. You’ve worked so hard to support them, yet they can’t even say a good word about you. When you get old, they won’t look after you."

"Ah, lucky for me, I didn’t end up becoming family with you. Otherwise, with a few stepchildren that only know how to indulge and bully, who knows how many grievances I would have had to suffer? Maybe I’d age even faster than you, so glad, just so glad."

"Look, now when we stand together, we are like two generations apart. Now I have money and a house, my children are obedient, and life is unbelievably happy. So, as they say, if a woman marries a useless husband, it’s better not to marry at all and start her own career. Fortunately, I succeeded."

After Yuan Chun mocked him, she waved her hand, "Here’s two cents, forget it, I won’t take it, consider it my pity, treat you to a meal."

"No need."

Second Cui placed the two cents on the counter and turned away to leave.

Does Second Cui regret it?

Yes, he regrets it.

He deeply regrets it.

He regrets not treating Mei Yuan Chun well in his past life, which led to the end of his relationship with Mei Yuan Chun in this life, resulting in living a hard, lonely life without even being able to marry a wife, often bullied by his three ungrateful children.

Indeed, Second Cui is lonely and bitter.

He doesn’t live with his three children.

In the twisted family of the Cui Family, Second Cui’s three children were also successfully tormented into twisted personalities.

Second Cui, picking up scrap, managed to save a few dozen yuan and bought two vacant houses in the village that used to be a Knowledge Youth Courtyard.

However, before he could move in, his three children seized it from him.

He could only move to a dilapidated thatched house in the village.

In the subsequent years, whenever he made some money from picking up scrap, his three children would steal it, so despite making a considerable amount, he never saved a penny.

He had moved from the thatched house to an empty house in the Knowledge Youth Courtyard. After all, the thatched house could freeze a person to death in the winter, and the Shunfeng Team leader didn’t want to see anyone in the village perish from the cold, so they lent him a room to live in.

But living closer to his three children, Second Cui was increasingly bullied by them to the point where he couldn’t even have a bowl of porridge.

The four members of Second Cui’s family were assigned quite a bit of land, which usually Second Cui tended to all by himself. But when it was harvest time, his three children would take all his grain, sell it, and pocket the money.

Second Cui was driven to the brink of collapse by his three children, yet there was nothing he could do.

Today, after being provoked by Mei Yuan Chun, Second Cui felt his life couldn’t continue like this, or he would die even more miserably than in his past life.

So, after selling a cartload of scrap, Second Cui didn’t go home; instead, he climbed onto a bus and left this small county town.

As for Second Cui’s three children, after losing Second Cui’s support, his two sons even thought of selling Cui Xiaohong for money.

In the end, both were countered and killed by Cui Xiaohong.

Yes, they were killed.

But, after all, Cui Xiaohong had lived an extra lifetime, so she didn’t openly murder them but went up the mountain to pick some poisonous mushrooms and made a mushroom egg soup.

Whatever good food there was at home, her two brothers ate it all, Cui Xiaohong got none.

So, her two brothers died, but Cui Xiaohong was fine.